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Job title:

Senior Lecturer

Office:

Bayes Centre, Design Informatics, Office 1.53

Biography

Dr. Larissa Pschetz is a Senior Lecturer in Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on time, ecologies, biodesign and inclusive technologies. She completed a Microsoft-funded PhD in 2014, where she coined the term “Temporal Design” which invites designers to consider the multiple ways in which design can reinforce or challenge notions of time that sustain different cultural, social, economic, political and environmental forces. She has previously worked as a designer at research centres such as IBM Watson in Cambridge MA, Microsoft Research Cambridge UK, Microsoft Research Asia, and at interaction design offices in Germany, such as IxDS in Berlin and HID in Hamburg. Larissa has published and served as an editor, associated chair and reviewer in high-impact Design and HCI venues. She supervises practice-based PhD students.

Research interests

  • Temporal Design
  • Ecologies and bio-related design
  • Inclusive technologies

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